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1775 document: Colonists asked pacifists to pay
Post Date: 2011-09-05 18:24:37 by A K A Stone
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LITITZ, Pa. (AP) -- In a fledgling nation hungry for men to fight in the American Revolution, conscientious objectors were frequently greeted with scorn and their loyalty was questioned. As war approached, leaders in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County sought to ease tensions by urging the growing number of German immigrants with religious objections to war to demonstrate their patriotism by giving as much money as they could afford to the revolutionary cause. The proposition is spelled out in a July 11, 1775, public notice known as a "broadside," which is on display at the Moravian Archives & Museum here. Experts recently confirmed it as the only known English-language ...
Chamberlain's secret bid to reach a deal with Hitler, revealed in newly released documents
Post Date: 2011-09-04 00:23:05 by Sebastian
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain held secret talks with Hitler's henchmen to work out ways of making the Nazis look more sympathetic to ordinary Britons, classified documents released last week reveal. The cloak-and-dagger meetings in London came shortly after Chamberlain signed his disastrous appeasement deal with Hitler in Munich in September 1938, declaring 'peace for our time' on his return to Britain. The meetings were held without the knowledge of the Cabinet and Foreign Office. Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax only learned of them later because of an MI5 mole in the German embassy. Secrets: Recently released documents show Neville Chamberlain (left) tried to ...
Fury as Virginia considers limiting Confederate flag displays in town where civil war generals are buried
Post Date: 2011-09-02 21:46:14 by Sebastian
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Crowds of Confederate Veteran demonstrators rallied yesterday to protest against plans to limit the flying of the Confederate flag in rural Virginia.The flag of Dixie has long caused controversy as a divisive symbol between northern and southern American states, with officials in Lexington, Virginia, trying to limit its use.The Sons of Confederate Veterans rallied yesterday to oppose plans to limit flags on downtown poles in the city where Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson are buried. Flying the flag: Demonstrators from the Sons of Confederate Veterans take part in a rally against plans to limit use of the Confederate flag Taking a stand: ...
Buchanan: Looking Back at 'The Good War'
Post Date: 2011-09-02 18:42:39 by Brian S
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In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1939, 72 years ago, the German army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, having received no reply to his ultimatum demanding a German withdrawal, declared that a state of war now existed between Great Britain and Germany. The empire followed the mother country in. The second world war was on. It would last six years, carry off scores of millions and end with Germany in ruins, half of Europe under Josef Stalin's rule and the British Empire on the way to collapse. Though it may prove to be the mortal wound that brings about the death of the West, most today accept World War II as inevitable, indeed ...
When American Was Free
Post Date: 2011-08-31 21:33:40 by jwpegler
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Remembering Ireland and Fighting for the Union
Post Date: 2011-08-30 20:31:16 by CZ82
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Remembering Ireland and Fighting for the Union By Thomas J. Craughwell from the July/August 2011 issue Civil war historians and enthusiasts will argue over the greatest Confederate general, or whether Mary Todd Lincoln was certifiable or just a bit quirky. But when it comes to naming the greatest Union fighting outfit, most will agree it was the Irish Brigade. Comprised of the 63rd, 69th, and 88th New York Infantry Regiments, and eventually the 116th Pennsylvania and the 28th Massachusetts, the Irish Brigade fought in every major battle of the eastern theater of the war, from Bull Run to Appomattox. And they lost more casualties than any other brigade—approximately 4,000. Their ...
'This is 21st Century racism and apartheid': Cherokee Indian tribe expels all slave descendants
Post Date: 2011-08-27 18:30:25 by Sebastian
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The nation's second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners.The Cherokee nation voted after the Civil War to admit the slave descendants to the tribe.But on Monday, the tribe's Supreme Court ruled that a 2007 tribal decision to kick the so-called 'Freedmen' out of the tribe could be upheld.Scroll down for video Heritage: The case centred on whether the descendants of black slaves taken in by Native American owners should be deemed official members The controversy stems from a footnote in the brutal history of U.S. treatment of Native ...
Georgia Southern University digs at newly discovered WAR between the States POW camp
Post Date: 2011-08-20 21:46:13 by Mad Dog
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In 2009, Georgia Southern University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology began a project to investigate the archeology at Camp Lawton, a Civil War prisoner of war camp situated in Jenkins County, Georgia. Working with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, archeologists used the drawings of Private Robert Knox Sneden, a prisoner at the camp, to designate several initial survey areas and to identify the likely location of the camp stockade. About that same time, we learned that Dr. John Derden of East Georgia College was completing a history of Camp Lawton. His knowledge and expertise provided valuable guidance to the archeological ...
NAACP President Compares Black Unemployment To Rodney King Beating; Says Blacks Better Off In The 1800’s
Post Date: 2011-08-11 20:43:30 by CZ82
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NAACP President Compares Black Unemployment To Rodney King Beating; Says Blacks Better Off In The 1800’s by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Recently in downtown Los Angeles, NAACP President Ben Jealous held a press conference to kick off his group’s 102nd annual convention. His remarks came just two days before our newly formed South Central L.A. Tea Party held a major rally to expose the lies and racism of the NAACP. During the press conference Jealous was asked about the black-led Tea Party group and about details of a recent closed-door meeting he and other liberal black leaders had with President Barack Obama. What you will see in the following video and read from the partial ...
Why Capitalism Is Worth Defending
Post Date: 2011-07-29 16:05:00 by Capitalist Eric
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As Obama demonizes the wealthy and pitches a dozen plans to restructure the economy, opponents of this program need a reminder of what exactly we’re fighting for. We are resisting bureaucracy, central planning, and encroachments on our freedom and communities. Yet this does not get to the heart of the matter. We are not only an opposition movement, countering the president and his partisans’ agenda. More fundamentally, we stand in defense of the greatest engine of material prosperity in human history, the fount of civilization, peace, and modernity: Capitalism. Many regard it a dirty word and it is tarnished most of all by its supposed guardians. Wall Street giants fancy ...
BIBLICAL CITY OF GATH UNEARTHED BY ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Post Date: 2011-07-11 15:47:26 by A K A Stone
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TEL EL-SAFI, Israel (AP) — At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible. The city of Gath, where the annual digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites. Close to three millennia ago, Gath was on the frontier between the Philistines, who occupied the Mediterranean coastal plain, and the Israelites, who controlled the inland hills. The city’s most famous resident, according to the Book of Samuel, was Goliath — ...
Confederate Flag License Plate Sparks Debate (Texas)
Post Date: 2011-06-24 22:28:43 by Hondo68
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) -- Would you buy a license plate with a Confederate flag on it? State officials are looking at possibly launching a new Texas state license plate honoring veterans of the War Between the States. Mr. Hilary Shelton, with the NAACP in Washington, D.C., said that the Civil War may not be something we want to celebrate. “When many look at that history, we think about it in terms of secession, that is we were seceding from the Union in the southern parts of the country,” explained Shelton. “Many would view that, quite frankly, as treason, because they meant to actually destroy the existing governmental structure. But when we dig deeper, the issue becomes ...
Brig. Gen. Steve Ritchie and the Rescue of Roger Locher
Post Date: 2011-06-24 19:13:25 by CZ82
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Jidaigeki
Post Date: 2011-06-03 22:20:06 by Mad Dog
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Jidaigeki (78;É95;Ó27;) is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama," and the period is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier — Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period — and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of this time. Jidaigeki films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is really a sub group. They have a set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup, language, ...
Why Arafat is Looking to Bush
Post Date: 2011-05-21 12:52:38 by lucysmom
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Yasser Arafat's qualified "yes" to President Clinton33;s proposals also looks a lot like a "no." What's his game? "Arafat is under more pressure than he's ever been. First he's pressured by the Americans to sign a deal. But then he's pressured by his own people, and by some of the most important Arab countries, not to sign. Arafat knows that saying no to Clinton is something very dangerous, but that accepting the American proposals is also very dangerous. So he has to find a formula in which he can appear to be both accepting them and rejecting them. snip So will the pro-Western Arab regimes encourage Arafat to make a deal? "Over ...
Tostig Godwinson Brother and Traitor to the King
Post Date: 2011-05-21 08:40:29 by A K A Stone
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Born around the year 1025, Tostig was the third son of the power Earl Godwin and the younger brother to the future King Harold. For most of his early life, he lived in the shadow of his two older brothers. In 1051, he married Judith the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, which cemented an already powerful alliance between the two families. In 1055, when Earl Siward died, King Edward named Tostig the Earl of Northumbria, Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire. The most important of these was Northumbria, which at the time was a lawless domain, ruled by bandits and robbers. With the backing of his powerful family, Tostig was able to impose new laws and round up the outlaws that had ...
Early Days of US Involvement in VN [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-20 11:12:45 by sneakypete
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Poster Comment:This is a documentary type thing from the early days in VN about Special Forces involvement in recruiting and training the locals. Notice the guys are still wearing regular fatigues,white name tags,and gold stripes,and they are all still carrying WW-2 weapons. Not real sure of the year,but I was issued a full-auto AR-15 and jungle fatigues when I got to Bragg in 64. Which means this was probably a team that was TDY from the 5th while it was still at Bragg. IIRC,the 5th deployed to VN in 65,and by then they should have all been wearing jungle fatigues.
Lincoln’s Religion, His Belief about God and Christianity
Post Date: 2011-04-16 20:02:29 by Sebastian
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$35,000 The Original of William H. Herndon’s Famous Letter of Revelations on Lincoln’s Religion “He…was a Theist & a Rationalist, denying all extraordinary – supernatural inspiration or revelation…doubting the immortality of the soul as the Christian world understands that term. He believed that the soul lost its identity and was immortal as a force.” On Lincoln the man and the politician: “He’s the purest politician I ever saw, and the justest man.” William H. Herndon was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1844, and late that year formed a partnership with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. They practiced for 17 years together, and no one ...
FBI memo, photo link Bush Sr to JFK Dallas murder scene
Post Date: 2011-04-16 18:21:16 by A K A Stone
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“Actually, however, Congress was being manipulated. This is how the war machine operates. Behind the seeming concern for national security are the busy men with the bulging briefcases hurrying form the Pentagon over to Capitol Hill, the tight-mouthed men hurrying from CIA headquarters over to the Pentagon; it is eventually a game. It is an operation designed to produce for the warfare sector and its military hardware supporters billions of dollars annually and unlimited power in the affairs of the nation.”
“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and ...
Civil War still divides Americans
Post Date: 2011-04-13 21:45:49 by Sebastian
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It has been 150 years since the Civil War began with the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and in some respects views of the Confederacy and the role that slavery played in the events of 1861 still divide the public, according to a new national poll. In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Tuesday, roughly one in four Americans said they sympathize more with the Confederacy than the Union, a figure that rises to nearly four in ten among white Southerners. When asked the reason behind the Civil War, whether it was fought over slavery or states' rights, 52 percent of all Americans said the leaders of the Confederacy seceded to keep slavery legal in their ...
Hawaii official denounces 'ludicrous' birther claims [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-10 13:41:06 by Skip Intro
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The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is "real" and denounced "conspiracy theorists" in the so-called "birther" movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue. "It’s kind of ludicrous at this point," Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former director of Hawaii's Department of Health, said in a rare telephone interview with NBC. Fukino, sounding both exasperated and amused, spoke to a reporter in the aftermath of Donald Trump's statements on the NBC Today show last week questioning whether Obama has a legitimate birth ...
Trump Sees Act of God in Recession [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-09 13:08:13 by Skip Intro
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Guess who is complaining that condominiums in Donald Trump’s latest big project are ridiculously overpriced. Donald Trump is. But he isn’t cutting the prices. He says the banks won’t let him. The project is the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, which is to be the second-tallest building in that city (after the Sears Tower). By Mr. Trump’s account, sales were going great until “the real estate market in Chicago suffered a severe downturn” and the bankers made it worse by “creating the current financial crisis.” Those assertions are made in a fascinating lawsuit filed by Mr. Trump, the real estate developer, television personality ...
Freedoms We had in the 19th Century We do NOT Have Now Thanks to "Progressives" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-05 02:10:25 by Coral Snake
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These are the freedoms we had in the 19th Century that we DON'T have now thanks to "PROGRESSIVES". 1. Freedom of travel. As a general rule horses and wagons were not LICENSED and REGISTERED and one did not have to submit to sexually oriented "pat downs" in order to board the stage coach or "iron horse" (passenger train). What roads that existed were paid for by county and state taxation and since everybody paid the taxes everybody had free use of them. 2. Gambling and losing was a personal choice not the law. Yes, legal Faro banks were crooked for the most part and led some of their players to become gambling addicts but one had a choice of weather he was ...
Videos of The Demolition And Destruction Of Americas Former Industrial Might
Post Date: 2011-04-04 23:27:37 by A K A Stone
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J.L. Hudsons Department Store - GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!! - Controlled Demolition, Inc. CUR NON - The Demise Of The Lafayette Building Ocean Tower - Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Poster Comment:Here is a start
Luftwaffe Over New York, a WW2 Secret
Post Date: 2011-03-28 21:32:24 by sneakypete
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The Most Dangerous Photo-Recon Mission of World War II On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissance bomber, a Junkers Ju-390 took off from its base in Norway and flew out across the Atlantic Ocean. Among its four man crew was a brave and daring woman Anna Kreisling, the ‘White Wolf of the Luftwaffe’. A nickname she had acquired because of her frost blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Anna was one of the top pilots in Germany and even though she was only the co-pilot on this mission, her flying ability was crucial to its success. The Ju-390 was twice the size of the B-29 Superfortress. It was powered by six 1,500 hp BMW radial engines and it had a range of ...
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